A bit more technical than my usual posts here, but… I upgraded to Kubuntu 13.10 on Thursday evening on my desktop machine at home, and one of the packages included in the update was Apache (Apache 2.2 upgraded to Apache 2.4). Just in case any of you upgrade to Apache 2.4 in the future I thought…
I thought it was about time to give you all an update on the free open-source Artists Website Software I’m currently working on. I’ve got a very basic skeleton completed so far, but the alpha version is still some way off. I could have written it much quicker if I’d taken a more traditional…
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In my last post I talked about the Artists Website Software I was planning. It’s been a busy few months (both with my day-job and with moving house) but I have made some progress, and I hope to have an alpha version available in the new year. At that point I’ll probably upload everything…
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My website has grown organically over 12 years, but the code is looking very messy and unmanageable, so I’m thinking of recoding it from scratch (while adding a lot of improvements). I decided that I may as well make any such “artist’s website application” available as a free open-source…
Following up from my “Microsites for Arts Projects” post in August, I noticed that Maki at DoshDosh had (quite separately) published a similar article in September entitled “How ‘Mini-Funnel’ Websites Can Help You Increase Traffic, Generate Leads and Build Exposure“. Maki lists five…
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In my job at a publishing company we often have to create special one-off mini-websites for individual books, book series or for the books by a particular author. These are in addition to the book’s page on our main website. They act as focused marketing sites for books that are likely to sell…
I was chatting to a good friend of mine yesterday about business strategies for her music. She’s not planning on chart-topping super-stardom, she just wants to have a plan for getting her music out there and hopefully making some money on it. So, I thought I’d put together my ideas for…
1. Disabling right-clicking JavaScript that disables right-clicking (to prevent people “stealing” your images) is wrong on so many levels. But it’s such a prevalent mistake that I feel the need to tell you why it’s wrong: Small screen-sized digital images of your artwork are your most…
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The 2006 blog post Five mistakes you’re probably making with your MySpace page (on Andrew Dubber’s blog New Music Strategies) applies equally to visual artists as it does to musicians. The five mistakes (expanded on in much better detail in the blog post itself) are: Using MySpace as your…
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1. Start with a website OK, here’s the easy-to-follow three-point guide: If you are a competent web developer then create your own site. If you have a friend who is a competent web developer then ask them to set you up free blog software (e.g. WordPress) on a web-host with your own domain…
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